CURRENT MISSION

Enlightenment. To access the truth ancient, cosmic and beyond to prepare myself and others (physically and spiritually).

PHILOSOPHY

I live to learn. To love. To experience. To absorb the lessons of the universe and to vibrate with that knowing. Sharing what I've gathered with others usually leads to receiving some new lesson or insight in turn. In this manner I've had many and many a sublime experience.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I've had my couch available for traveling friends of friends for quite sometime. Each and every time has been wonderful, enlightening and tons of fun. At this point it seems almost necessary for me to make it official on this site.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I had only found out about couch surfing just a week or so before my backpacking trip through Europe and so me and a very good friend of mine weren't able to secure any couches for our trip which was a tad unfortunate as we only had $400 between the two of us for 5 weeks and 5 countries. That money was reserved for food (and cigarettes >_<) so we pretty much stayed in parks, train stations, store fronts, abandoned buildings etc. Fortunately, in 3 of the 5 countries we visited we met some very kind souls who let us stay with them for a few days. We were completely saturated with gratitude, appreciation and love for people and their hospitality. All of us had some wonderful times and I've since done the same for a few fellow travelers.

Interests

Pondering, Thinking, Wondering, Doubting, Dreaming, Contemplating, Reflecting, Meditating, Sharing ideas, Walking, Breathing, Being, Twinkling the keys, Painting and Playing Playstation.

• arts
• dining
• walking
• traveling
• painting
• backpacking
• surfing
• parks

Music, Movies, and Books

BOOKS
The Essential Ralph Waldo Emerson
A New Earth: Ekhart Tolle
A Blissful Journey: Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
DMT the Spirit Molecule: Dr. Rick Strassman

MUSIC

Black Metal
Electronica
Uber Random Stuff

MOVIES
The Professional
Being John Malkovich
TYSON :)

Teach, Learn, Share

A lesson in Polarity perhaps?

Everything has its pair of opposites; thesis and antithesis are identical in nature, but different in degree; opposites are the same, differing only in degre; the pairs of opposites may be reconciled; extremes meet; everything is and isn't, at the same time; all truths are but half-truths; every truth is half false; there are two sides to everything, etc., etc., etc.

In everything there are two poles, or opposite aspects, and that “opposites” are really only the two extremes of the same thing, with many varying degrees between them.

To illustrate: Heat and Cold, although “opposites,” are really the same thing, the differences consisting merely of degrees of the same thing. Look at your thermometer and see if you can discover where “heat” terminates and “cold” begins! There is no such thing as “absolute heat” or “absolute cold”– the two terms “heat” and “cold” simply indicate varying degrees of the same thing, and that “same thing” which manifests as “heat” and “cold” is merely a form, variety, and rate of Vibration. So “heat” and “cold” are simply the “two poles” of that which we call “Heat”–and the phenomena attendant thereupon are manifestations of the principle of Polarity.

The same principle manifests in the case of “Light and Darkness,” which are the same thing, the difference consisting of varying degrees between the two poles of the phenomena. Where does “darkness” leave off, and “light” begin? What is the difference between “Large and Small”? Between “Hard and Soft”? Between “Black and White”? Between “Sharp and Dull”? Between “Noise and Quiet”? Between “High and Low”? Between “Positive and Negative”?

The same Principle operates on the Mental Plane. Let us take a radical and extreme example that of “Love and Hate,” two mental states apparently totally different. And yet there are degrees of Hate and degrees of Love, and a middle point in which we use the terms “Like or Dislike,” which shade into each other so gradually that sometimes we are at a loss to know whether we “like” or “dislike” or “neither.” And all are simply degrees of the same thing. And, it is possible to change the vibrations of Hate to the vibrations of Love, in one's own mind, and in the minds of others. Many of you, who read these lines, have had personal experiences of the involuntary rapid transition from Love to Hate. Why not transition from Hate to Love? Think, and you will realize the possibility of this being accomplished by the use of Will. In short, the “Art of Polarization” becomes a phase of “Mental Alchemy”.

An understanding of Polarity will enable one to change one's own Polarity, as well as that of others, if one will devote the time and study necessary to master the art.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, France, Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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